Hey everybody. Matt Alberto here with today’s post. What we’ll be talking today about is three reasons why I bought my fiancé’s engagement ring at Brilliant Earth. As you know my last post, I talked about at just getting engaged. One of the unique things about the engagement was that I got the engagement ring which was an ethical engagement ring from brillinatearth.com. They’re an online retailer that sells conflict-free engagement rings and other conflict-free jewelry. It’s really fitting for this website which talks about social entrepreneurship and businesses that do good.

Here’s three reasons why I bought the engagement ring at Brilliant Earth.

1. Brilliant Earth Specializes in Ethical Jewelry

The first reason was my fiancé, she actually wanted the ring from Brilliant Earth. The reason why is Brilliant Earth provides ethical engagement rings. How it happened was that I knew for a while that she was going to be the one. Two years ago, I didn’t want to make it too complicated. I might heard other guys’ experiences about trying to figure out the engagement ring. Other family members who, other female family members like my female cousins trying to tell their boyfriends which engagement rings they wanted. It seems like there was a lot of confusion about what kind of engagement ring that women wanted. I felt I was little confused at that and I didn’t know what my girlfriend at that time wanted.

Two years ago, I just plainly just flatly asked her, “What kind of engagement ring would you want if ever I were to get you one?” Serious conversation and she had some time to think about it. She looked online and she stumbled across brillinatearth.com. The reason why was one of the major things she wanted in terms of an engagement ring was to ensure that it was conflict-free. Conflict-free means that the engagement ring or the jewelry involved aren’t linked to conflict or as they say blood diamonds.

Maybe you’ve seen the movie with Leo di Caprio about blood diamonds and how there’s this really unethical industry involving war and conflict and subjugation and all that related to diamonds. She wanted one that was certified to be conflict-free and she found Brilliant Earth to be one of the most reputable company. She showed me one and she wanted hers to be unique so the one she chose was a pink sapphire type ring which was pink sapphire with diamonds. Two diamonds next to them as well.

It was different from the usual diamond engagement ring. Even with the pink sapphire, she wanted it to be conflict-free and Brilliant Earth delivered on that. That was one reason why I bought the engagement ring there. The second reason was in the last couple of months, as I was trying to plan to get the ring, I looked up on the website. I had to do it secretly. She’s always around and I had to make sure that she didn’t see me going online.

2. You Can Get Free Ring Sizers for the Right Sized Engagement Ring

In [inaudible 00:03:29] one of the challenges to try to figure out which ring to get was the size of the ring. What I really liked about Brilliant Earth is that they’ve got a ring sizer. If you’re going to try and get and engagement ring for your girlfriend, they actually send you for free a ring sizer. What it is is it’s this plastic band that you put around her finger and with that you are able to see what kind of size she is. From there, you can order the right type of engagement ring size that’s right for her.

That was really useful because brilliantearth.com, they’re based in Canada but they’ve got an office as well in the US. They’ve got contact numbers and people as well in Australia. They’re doing deals here in Australia but being an online store that was one of my concerns and so my family as well. When we’re planning that was one of the concerns that because it’s an online one, will we get the right size?

With their ring sizer, it was really helpful to get the right size. After some failed attempts to get her ring size involving some of her friends, I also just asked her, “Could you just try this one?” From there we got an estimated ring size. That was useful also because since I’m based in Australia, Australian ring sizes for engagement rings are actually different from North American, US, and Canadian ring sizes. It’s useful to get that ring sizer to get the American sizes.

3. Free Shipping Both Ways for Your Engagement Ring

Lastly, one of the reasons why I got it there was just because of their free shipping policy. If you have any problem, you’re able to send the ring back free of charge and get it resized or even refunded. In our case, even with the ring sizer, I actually ordered just a little bit about a size bigger just so that to get a leeway but it ended up being slightly too big. I sent it back just recently and now just waiting for the ring to come back. That was all done for free. That was great and that was great service. I was really happy with that. They’re being in contact with me via e-mail saying that they’ve received it and should be back with us soon.

Final Thoughts on Brilliant Earth Ethical Jewellers

Those are three reasons why I got the engagement ring from Brilliant Earth. I really recommend it. One of the challenges, I suppose, with dealing with the online store is lack of a face to face communication. There isn’t a storefront but because they’ve been so efficient in terms of their e-mail communication, the phone communication, and the free shipping deal, it’s been really great. I recommend it especially if you like to support ethical jewelry. Check it out. Okay, bye bye.